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4 - Education, law and social, community and government services

This category includes occupations related to law, teaching, counselling, social science research, public policy development, and the administration of government programs and programs in other sectors. It also includes professions related to leadership and religious services. These occupations usually require post-secondary education in a related program. Paralegals, social service workers, and educators and instructors outside the primary, secondary, and post-secondary school system generally must complete additional formal education before they can advance to a profession requiring a higher level of specialization.

40 - Professional personnel in educational services

This major group includes professional occupations in educational services. It contains teachers at the secondary and primary levels, university professors, teachers at the college level and other vocational training instructors, teaching assistants at the post-secondary level and guidance counsellors.

41 - Professional personnel in law and government, social and community services

This major group includes professional occupations in law, government, social and community services. This includes judges, lawyers, notaries (in Quebec), psychologists, social workers and counsellors; as well as policy and program researchers, consultants and officers in various fields; and certain other professional occupations in the social sciences. This major group includes professional occupations in law, government, social and community services. It contains judges, lawyers, notaries (in Quebec), psychologists, social workers and counsellors; as well as policy and program researchers, consultants and officers in various fields; and certain other professional staff positions in the social sciences.

42 - Paraprofessional occupations in legal, social, community and educational services

This major group includes paraprofessional occupations in legal, social, community and educational services. It contains paralegals, social and community workers, early childhood educators and assistants, special educators for persons with disabilities, certain instructors and other religion-related personnel.

43 - Front Line Public Protection Personnel

This major group includes government service personnel who require some combination of secondary or post-secondary education and occupational training and who have significant health and safety responsibilities. It contains police officers (except senior executives), firefighters and non-commissioned members of the Canadian Armed Forces.

44 - Health care providers and support personnel in education, law and public protection

This major group includes caregivers and support workers in education, law and public protection, which usually require a high school diploma and some training or work experience and may also require related post-secondary education. It contains home care providers, family support staff, educational support staff, sheriffs, bailiffs, corrections officers, by-law enforcement officers, and a number of regulatory officers.